The Advancement of LearningFrancis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." |
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... prince-like, flowing as from a fountain, and yet streaming and branching itself into nature's order, full of facility ... princes thereunto: so likewise in these intellectual matters, there seemeth to be no less contention between the ...
... princes in minority (notwithstanding the infinite disadvantage of that kind of state) have nevertheless ex- celled the government of princes of mature age, even for that reason which they seek to traduce, which is, that by that occasion ...
... countenance of two so learned Princes, Queen Elizabeth, and your Majesty, being as Castor and Pollux,lucida sidera,34stars of excellent light and most benign influence, hath wrought 15 THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING • BOOK ONE.
... princes and great persons had long since turned to rudeness and barbarism, if the poverty of Learning had not kept up civility and honour of life: but without any such advantages, it is worthy the observation what a reverent and ...
... princes or superiors is want of duty. For the custom of the Levant, which is that subjects do forbear to gaze or fix their eyes upon princes,56 is in the outward ceremony barbarous, but the moral is good: for men ought not by cunning ...